Re: Re: Selecting Random Sequence

Actually i need some help with both the parts. the URL is

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/seq_reg.cgi?org=human&chr=7&from=1&to=158545518&cntg=cntg

Where the chr= changes, frm, to and cntg also change.
besides generating a random number which will span entire length of human genome is also a task! _{courtesy janitoring by ybiC: Made URL to be active link, by surrounding it with square brackets thusly [http://www...]}

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Re: Re: Re: Selecting Random Sequence
by thor (Priest) on Apr 25, 2004 at 16:42 UTC

my $start = int(rand(length($super)));
my $length = int(rand(length($super) - $start)) + 1;
my $substring = substr($super, $start, $length);
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use LWP::Simple;

getstore($url, $localfile);
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